Singer Daler Mehndi joins Congress

New Delhi: Punjabi pop singer Daler Mehndi  (46) and four leaders from various political parties joined Congress here on Monday, party sources said. Mehndi and four others had applied for party membership and their requests have been accepted, said a source in the party’s Delhi unit. [caption id=“attachment_1062817” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Daler Mehndi. AFP.[/caption] The four others include two sitting Delhi legislators - Ram Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Asif Mohammad Khan, who is an Independent. The two others are Ram Singh Bidhuri, a former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator, and VK Monga. Mehndi, who burst into the Indi Pop scene in the mid nineties and ruled the music scene with his brand of bhangra pop for close to ten years, had fallen short on popularity in the past few years. In 2003, Mehndi and his brothers were implicated in an illegal immigration racket in United Kingdom. Mehndi had denied all charges.   With inputs from IANS